Digital Collections
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CollectionAbdul-Hamid II Collection of Books and Serials Gifted to the Library of Congress In 1884 Sultan Abdul-Hamid II gifted the Library of Congress with a collection of Ottoman Turkish, Persian, Arabic works that he had richly embossed with this inscription in English, French and Ottoman:...
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CollectionCrisis in Darfur 2006 Web Archive Collection Period: February 20, 2006 to December 5, 2006. Described by the United Nations as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, the current conflict in Sudan’s western region of Darfur began in early...
- Contributor: Library of Congress
- Date: 2006
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CollectionEgypt 2008 Web Archive Collection Period: April 12, 2008 to May 31, 2008. In 2008 Egypt witnessed a remarkable experience rich in political and democratic practices, and the sites captured back then should be revisited in...
- Date: 2008
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CollectionEltaher Collection The Eltaher Collection consists of more than 2,000 items in various formats, including books, pamphlets, photographs, personal correspondence, and newspaper clippings among other documents. The majority of the collection is in Arabic,...
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CollectionHidden Treasures at the Library of Congress This Week's Hidden Treasure in Partnership with HISTORY This Week's Hidden Treasure is an exciting opportunity to examine historically meaningful and culturally relevant artifacts from the treasured collections of the Library of...
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CollectionManuscripts from the Monasteries of Mt. Athos The twenty monasteries which comprise the historic and legendary yet largely inaccessible monastic complex on Mt. Athos in Greece house a rich collection of over 11,000 manuscripts. In 1952 and 1953, the...
- Contributor: Library of Congress
- Date: 1952
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CollectionManuscripts in St. Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai The renowned Eastern Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine’s on Mt. Sinai was constructed by the Byzantine Emperor, Justinian I, in the late sixth century AD over the relics of the martyred saint...
- Contributor: Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai) - Clark, Kenneth Willis
- Date: 1950
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CollectionManuscripts in the Libraries of the Greek and Armenian Patriarchates in Jerusalem As Jerusalem, the location of Christ’s Passion, has been central to the Christian religion since its inception, all the early churches sought a presence in that storied and holy city. The Greek...
- Contributor: Stone, Michael E.
- Date: 1969
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CollectionOmar Ibn Said Collection The Omar Ibn Said Collection consists of 42 digitized documents in both English and Arabic, including an 1831 manuscript in Arabic on "The Life of Omar Ibn Said," a West African slave...
- Contributor: Dwight, Theodore - Said, Omar Ibn - See, Sheikh Sana - Kebe, Lamine - Dukur, Muḥammad - Bird, Isaac - Cotheal, Alexander Isaac - Thomson, William Hanna - Beard, Derrick Joshua - Rothman, Adam ... Dwight, Theodore - Said, Omar Ibn - See, Sheikh Sana - Kebe, Lamine - Dukur, Muḥammad - Bird, Isaac - Cotheal, Alexander Isaac - Thomson, William Hanna - Beard, Derrick Joshua - Rothman, Adam - American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions - American Bible Society - American Ethnological Society - Omar Ibn Said Collection (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 1741
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CollectionPersian Language Rare Materials The Library of Congress is home to a noteworthy collection of rare Persian language manuscripts, lithographic books and early imprints, as well as printed books, housed in the African and Middle Eastern...
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